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"A second chance at life" : labour, love and welfare on a South Wales estate
TL;DR: This article examined the lives of a group of welfare-reliant single mothers living in the upper reaches of the South Wales Valleys as they participated in a community education project (Lifeline) tasked with raising them out of poverty.
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Two Generations Of Black Caribbean Women‘s Experiences Of The Education System
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the generational differences between the first generation of British born females of Caribbean descent who attended school in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s and their daughters.
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Teachers’ Work in China’s Migrant Schools:
TL;DR: In this article, Li et al. investigated teachers' work in private migrant schools in urban China, and found that neither education nor labor scholars have empirically investigated teachers’ work.
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Residential mobility, work and belonging in low-income communities
TL;DR: This article found that people adjusted to labour market changes not through mobility but by remaining in-situ and drawing on place-based support, and the extent to which networks of support were utilized to find work, provide childcare, and support those experiencing ill health.
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Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems: the Career of a Concept
TL;DR: The concept of community of practice was not born in the systems theory tradition as discussed by the authors, but it has its roots in attempts to develop accounts of the social nature of human learning inspired by anthropology and social theory.
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
TL;DR: In this article, the Flatlands of Oakland and the Youth Control Complex are discussed. But the focus is on the role of black youth in the criminal justice system and community institutions.
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Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The authors examines the transition to adulthood among 1.5-generation undocumented Latino young adults and finds that for them, the transition from K to adulthood involves exiting the legally protected status of K to...
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New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice
Michael A. Lawson,Hal A. Lawson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, student engagement research, policy, and practice must become more nuanced and less formulaic, and the ensuing review is structured accordingly, guided in part by social-ecological analysis and social-cultural theory.
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The Significance of Relationships: Academic Engagement and Achievement Among Newcomer Immigrant Youth
TL;DR: The Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study (LISA) as discussed by the authors used a mixed-methods approach, combining longitudinal, interdisciplinary, qualitative, and quantitative approaches to document adaptation patterns of 407 recently arrived immigrant youth from Central America, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico over the course of five years.